Table 4

Hazard ratios (HR) of affective and stress related disorders in human service occupations by 4-digit DISCO code; men

Code	Job title	Affective disorders					Stress related disorders
Code	Job title	Controls	Cases	HR crude	HR adj	95% CI	Controls	Cases	HR crude	HR adj	95% CI
*Customer group includes service clerks (DISCO 42) and travel services (DISCO 5111–5113).
†Miscellaneous group consists of counsellors (DISCO 2412), psychologists (DISCO 2445), special education teachers (DISCO 2340), firemen (DISCO 5161), policemen (DISCO 5162), and prison guards (DISCO 5163).
HRs are adjusted for marital status (single yes/no), having children (yes/no), level of education (up to vocational/higher), income level (low/high), total level of unemployment (less than 2 years/over 2 years), residence (town/province), and nationality (Danish/not Danish)
Bold type indicates hazard ratios with 95% confidence limits not including unity are not related to a priori hypothesis.
Health professionals		325	97	1.93	1.79	1.41–2.27	609	128	1.47	1.29	1.06–1.59
2221	Medical doctor	126	39	1.96	2.10	1.44–3.06	162	10	0.40	0.57	0.30–1.09
2230	Midwife/head nurse	7	0	0	0	0	3	1	2.35	3.80	0.38–37.6
3231	Nursing	11	6	3.36	3.46	1.25–9.58	38	6	1.09	1.35	0.56–3.24
5132	Nurse-aid	171	47	1.79	1.51	1.08–2.10	369	101	1.97	1.51	1.20–1.90
5133	Home nurse-aid	10	5	3.67	3.15	1.06–9.34	37	10	1.87	1.16	0.57–2.3
Education professionals		587	123	1.37	1.31	1.06–1.61	941	192	1.42	1.68	1.42–2.00
2320	Sec. school teacher	97	17	1.09	1.13	0.67–1.90	131	20	1.07	1.45	0.89–2.35
2331	Prim. school teacher	340	72	1.34	1.38	1.05–1.81	517	87	1.16	1.67	1.31–2.13
3310	Pre school teacher	19	2	0.65	0.62	0.14–2.69	17	4	1.82	1.83	0.61–5.65
3320	Child day care prof.	51	19	2.49	2.11	1.22–3.63	121	42	2.44	2.33	1.62–3.35
3340	Teaching associate	49	7	0.91	0.90	0.40–2.01	76	17	1.53	1.38	0.80–2.36
5131	Child care at home	31	6	1.33	1.00	0.41–2.45	79	22	2.01	1.35	0.83–2.20
Social workers		55	26	2.91	2.73	1.67–4.46	91	25	1.82	2.48	1.56–3.91
3330	Social care worker	37	18	3.01	2.78	1.54–5.02	65	17	1.71	2.53	1.46–4.39
3443	Social benefit adm.	12	6	3.04	2.77	1.00–7.58	21	8	2.48	3.03	1.32–7.00
3460	Social worker	6	2	2.11	2.72	0.54–13.8	5	0	0	0	0
Customer services*		98	13	0.87	0.93	0.52–1.68	207	32	1.07	1.05	0.72–1.53
Miscellaneous†		163	32	1.25	1.44	0.97–2.12	262	41	1.08	1.51	1.07–2.12
Not employed		3385	1194	2.55	1.64	1.47–1.83	6188	2415	3.09	1.90	1.75–2.05
DISCO 4-digit missing		3452	597	1.14	1.05	0.95–1.17	6991	1292	1.33	1.19	1.11–1.28
Ref. others employed		10215	1574	1	1		18656	2664	1	1